Modernities: A Geohistorical Interpretation

By Peter J. Taylor

Book Overview

A thoroughly readable, far-reaching analysis of "modernity" and "the modern, " this book focuses on the specific periods and places where ideas and practices of being modern are created and challenged. Peter J. Taylor contends that modernity is a multiple phenomenon: that is, different modern times and different modern spaces exist in a world of multiple modernities. He argues that three "prime modernities" have been defined by the development of the modern world -- from mercantile modernity to British-led industrial modernity to today's American-led consumer modernity -- and illustrates the cultural expression of these modernities as "acts of the ordinary, " such as paintings, the home, and the suburbs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816633967
• ISBN13: 9780816633968
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"